Last Friday, The Daily Beast popped a story trumpeting what seemed, at first, like a scoop the press had been chasing all year. The splashy headline said it all: “MORMONS WANT TO EXCOMMUNICATE ROMNEY CRITIC."
The article told the tale of a Mormon blogger named David Twede who said he was facing excommunication on charges of “apostasy.” His supposed sin: Writing critically about Mitt Romney. As journalist Jamie Reno framed it, Twede’s travails represented the first sign of a church-wide “witch hunt” aimed at rooting out political dissent and ensuring universal allegiance in Zion to the Mormon Candidate. The story went viral within hours.
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